Foot Pursuit Tracking

Mobile phones can already be used to track the position rather accurately.

One meter accuracy is achievable but even 50 m or more will be be sufficient for the purpose.

Yes it would be a good idea, But i suspect cost would stop them.

there was a plan do introduce a system in UK so an injured Officer could pinpoint his/hers position but was not installed because of cost

You can hear the officers desperately trying to relay their positions into the radios and the repeated request from the dispatchers to repeat.

Just a pipe dream I guess, like protecting soldiers from IED's.

I am sick of politicians and the lip service they spout.

Let's get real. If you are running through back yards chasing a perp it doesn't matter how accurately someone 100 yards away from you can track you. The fact is that they won't have a clue where you are in relationship to them, and certainly won't be able to identify the gate to go through to get to the criminal.

It just doesn't work that way. Unless it's your back yard, you will be lost!

Think about it.

you will be lost, but as #6 pointed out, with a total-tracking system, the home base can know where you are, even if you don't (gps)

I agree, the key word here is dispatcher. Especially in a densely populated city.

I think you are right.. please include in the wishlist.

That's what you get for using a garage sale police scanner. Had you purchased a new high end scanner you would have found that the officer always locates and apprehends the criminal.

splurf... morning coffee on the keyboard... ga 2 both.

Motorola already has this feature in both hand-held and vehicle-mounted radios of their APX series. There is an orange emergency button on the top of the unit. When pressed, it sends the location of the radio to dispatch or to other units (depending on how the system is configured).

Older units (e.g., EX & HT series) have the same button and will send out an alert, but not the location. We use it for our solo line workers (troubleshooters, inspectors, etc.) in case they get into trouble. It works for us because we have GPS in the trucks and our employees are never very far from their vehicle.

I suspect battery life might be the reason the locator function is not more widely available. Real-time tracking would require continuous transmission, which takes a lot of power.